The market for technology

Handbook of the Economics of Innovation

Volumn 1, Issue 1 C, 2010, Pages 641-678

  Arora, Ashish ^a   Gambardella, Alfonso ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Division of labor; High tech industries; Markets for technology; Patents; R d

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872374007     PISSN: 22108807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7218(10)01015-4     Document Type: Chapter

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